Hepatitis Testing Day

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In observance of Hepatitis Awareness Month, in May I am posting to this blog daily, suggesting ways to help raise awareness about issues surrounding hepatitis C.

Today (May 19, 2015) is the fourth national Hepatitis Testing Day. It is a day for people at risk to be tested, and for health care providers to educate patients about chronic viral hepatitis and testing. Millions of Americans have chronic hepatitis; most of them do not know they are infected. Here is what you can do to participate:

Urge everyone you know who was born in the years 1945 through 1965 to be tested for hepatitis C.

If you have hepatitis C, be sure you have been immunized against hepatitis A and B.